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Blues, Off The Record

Jul 4, 2025 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

Music

With Sonny Boy Williamson III

BBQ Blues

10:01 AM		Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson Hot Fingers Pioneers of the Jazz Guitar Yazoo 2005
10:02 AM		Blind Roosevelt Graves Hittin' the Bottle Stomp Blind Roosevelt Graves
10:04 AM		Tommy Johnson Lonesome Home Blues Canned Heat Blues: Masters of the Delta Blues
10:08 AM		Son House Preaching the Blues (Pts 1 & 2) Masters of the Delta Blues: The Friends of Charlie Patton
10:14 AM		Kokomo Arnold Milk Cow Blues The Roots of Robert Johnson Yazoo 2005
10:17 AM		Paul Robeson The House I Live in Ballad For Americans Vanguard Records 1992
10:22 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:22 AM		Barbecue Bob Barbecue Blues Barbecue Bob, Vol. 1 (1927 - 1928) Document Records 1990
10:26 AM		Charlie Patton It Won't Be Long Founder of the Delta Blues
10:31 AM		Ruth Willis and Blind Willie McTell Experience Blues The Slide Guitar
10:33 AM		Mississippi Sheiks Please Baby Stop and Listen Yazoo 1992
10:38 AM		The Pastels Been So Long The Best of Chess Vocal Groups
10:39 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
10:41 AM		Fats Waller Lonesome Me Private Acetates and Film Soundtracks
10:44 AM		The Chicago Rhythm Kings Tennessee Twilight Jaz Vol. 6: Chicago No. 2
10:47 AM		Tampa Red Cryin' Won't Help You Guitar Wizard
10:50 AM		Johnny Otis Can't You Hear Me Callin' The Johnny Otis Show
10:53 AM		Slim Gaillard Novachord Boogie Laughing in Rhythm
10:55 AM		The Bubbling Over Five Don't Mistreat Your Good Boy Friend American Primitive Vol. II: Pre War Revenants
11:01 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:02 AM		Carver Boys Wang Wang Harmonica Blues Harmonica Blues Yazoo 2005
11:07 AM		Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers Feather Bed Walk Right In
11:08 AM		Elizabeth Cotten Ontario Blues Elizabeth Cotten Vol.2: Shake Sugaree
11:12 AM		Lucille Bogan Lonesome Daddy Blues Women Won't Need No Men
11:16 AM		Blind Alfred Reed How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live Poor Man's Heaven
11:19 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:19 AM		The Holy Modal Rounders Give the Fiddler a Dram 1 & 2 (Remastered) Fantasy Records 1999
11:22 AM		Riley Puckett Nobody's Business When the Sun Goes Down, Vol. 10: East Virginia Blues RCA Bluebird 2004
11:25 AM		Muddy Waters Take a Walk With Me (Plantation Recording) The Complete Plantation Recordings Geffen 1993
11:28 AM		Skip James Cherry Ball Blues (1994 Remastered) The Complete Early Recordings 1930 (1994 Remastered) Yazoo 1994
11:32 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:32 AM		Elmore James Look On Yonder Wall The Best Of RCA/Legacy 2001
11:34 AM		Albert King Born Under A Bad Sign (Mono Mix) Born Under A Bad Sign (Mono) Craft Recordings 1967
11:37 AM		Joe Turner Shake, Rattle, and Roll Jump Blues Classics
11:41 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:41 AM		Bill Haley and His Comets Shake, Rattle and Roll Rock Around the Clock Geffen 1955
11:43 AM		Little Esther and the Robins Mainliner Night Train: Classic Railroad Songs, Vol. 3
11:46 AM		Howlin' Wolf I've Got a Woman Chess Blues Guitar
11:49 AM		Ma Rainey Oh Papa Blues Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
11:51 AM		Rosie Mae Moore Stranger Blues Mississippi Girls (1928-1931)
11:55 AM		George Smith Hey Mr. Porter Anthology of the Blues: California Blues
11:58 AM		Set Break: ----------------------------------------------------
11:58 AM		Blind Blake Wabash Rag The Best of Blind Blake Yazoo 2000

Chat is archived.

..excellent.. thank you..

Probably meant for Dave -- I'll pass on the thanks!

@ Sonny Boy Williamson III (host) Happy Indepence Day. All hail the Red, White ~ and BlueS ! :-D

And how better to celebrate than with a selection from the classic album Ballad For Americans by Princeton, NJ's own, the great Paul Robeson?

Happy 4th Richard!

Barbecue Bob was an Atlanta based musician and you can hear the similarity in his approach to that taken by the more famous Willie McTell

There's a modern NJ blues band called Barbecue Bob & the Spareribs.

: )

I'm reposting R. Crumb's 12-page Patton bio: https://stendek77.wordpress.com/patton-comic-tale-by-robert-crumb

I recently received a new biography of Crumb as a present, though I've yet to read it

@ David Shortell "Barbecue Bob & the Spareribs," you just gotta love it! ;-D

A question: in "Don't Mistreat Your Good Boy Friend," The Bubbling Over Five now and then breaks into a double-timed rhythm. It's very effective and I've heard other blues players do this. Is there a name /term for it?

I know what you mean Richard but if there's a term I don't know it!

I've never heard a term either, besides just double timing.

More on Fred Ramsey ... in the last years of his life, he lived up near Lambertville. He's the jazz & blues scholar/enthusiast who was responsible for the invaluable Leadbelly's Last Sessions albums, which he recorded ~ using the then-new technology of reel-to-reel tape ~ before Leadbelly's death in 1949 (maybe in 1948?). They came out as a Folkways boxed set in 1953 and were re-released earlier this year by Smithsonian Folkways.

Good to know, Richard!

Leadbelly's Last Sessions are highly recommended because Ramsey recorded them in a living room setting with some of his and Leadbelly's NYC friends present, as well as Huddie's wife Martha who sings wonderfully on a few tracks. We hear Leadbelly's song introductions, story telling and patter ~ not interrupted because of the reel-to-reel tape technology. What a marvelous entertainer was he!

Great info Richard!

Bill Haley's version features notably bowdlerized lyrics.

@ Sonny Boy Williamson III (host) Another outstanding show, and today celebrating the 4th of July with the African-American blues. Thanks.

Thanks as always Richard!

.. a star spangled show, thanks for saving Amerika today and for your service ..